Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), April 2014

by: yegg
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS: DuckDuckGo (remote or local in Paoli, PA)<p>If you&#x27;re an avid DuckDuckGo user who is excited about what we&#x27;re trying to accomplish, then check out our hiring page at <a href="https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/hiring" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dukgo.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;en_US&#x2F;company&#x2F;hiring</a><p>Right now we&#x27;re in need of some freelancing help in a number of areas including: 1) devops (using Chef); 2) backend (using Perl); 3) visual design.

by: antoviaque
text: REMOTE OK. OpenEdX Consultancy (Worldwide, company based in France)<p>Consultancy specialized on the edX project, and hiring to handle increasing demand. edX is a free software project, used by various universities and companies to run online courses. See edx.org, class.stanford.edu, france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr for examples of edX instances.<p>It&#x27;s a large Python&#x2F;Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture (a lot of the edX engineers come from MIT). You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list&#x2F;references include Harvard, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups &amp; universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are varied, from developing custom features for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing instances, developing generic platform features, deploying instances, working on both client&#x2F;server sides, etc.<p>A large part of your work would be published as free software (edX is released under the AGPL license, which requires clients to release modifications under the same license), and you would also contribute to the free software project, pushing some of your developments upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation or help on mailing-lists.<p>You would be able to work remotely from where you want, as long as you have a good internet connexion. : )<p>Stack: Python&#x2F;Django, Ansible, AWS, Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu, JS, HTML&#x2F;CSS, MySQL, MongoDB<p>Applying: Email jobs@antoviaque.org with: your github account, a short explanation of why you&#x27;re interested and a list of links to free software contributions you have made, if any.

by: dfine
text: based in NYC but REMOTE okay, looking to hire NOW<p><i>Frontend work for new and existing Django web apps</i><p>---<p>WE are Placemeter and we&#x27;re looking for a frontend developer that can commit about 15 hours per week. We are graduates of the TechStars accelerator, are backed by top investors in New York, Silicon Valley, and Paris, and need a frontend expert to join our great team of backend engineers, computer vision scientists, and designers. Read more about us: <a href="http://placemeter.com/about" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;placemeter.com&#x2F;about</a><p>---<p>YOU will work with us to build the frontend for a user account dashboard to display account status, user data, settings and options.<p>This is a Django web app. We will provide pixel-perfect PSD designs and interaction requirements. Frameworks we&#x27;re currently using at the frontend level are SASS, Foundation and jQuery, but we can be flexible with these.<p>While your focus will be on frontend development (HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS), some familiarity with Python and Django is a big plus. You&#x27;ll need to at least learn the basics of Django&#x2F;Python to do effective work. This would be ideal for someone with mostly frontend experience who wants to learn a bit more about fullstack development.<p><pre><code>  REQUIRED SKILLS
  +CSS
  +HTML
  +Django-Framework
  +Javascript
  +jQuery
  +(experience with PSD conversion a plus)
</code></pre>
---<p><i>Send us your info</i><p>We have several other projects in the pipeline, and would love to develop an ongoing relationship with the right candidate.<p>Email: meter@placemeter.com<p>Subject: Frontend Position

by: SteveMorin
text: San Francisco or Palo Alto
   Hiring for our Big Data Analytics Platform Team, also hiring on our Data Science Team.  Taking fulltime and consulting candidates.  We have internal facing and client facing positions on the team, so there is a lot of opportunities.  We also have 1 position open for DevOps&#x2F;SysOps role with BigData.<p>We are implementing a new analytics platform.  If your interested let me know.  I would love to talk to you more about the role.<p><pre><code>  Software Engineer - BigData Analytics Platform Team
    - Hadoop 2.0 
    - Hive
    - Yarn
    - Spark
    - Kafka
    - Ansible
  Front End , Data Scientists &amp; Data Analysts - Data Science
    - MapReduce 2
    - Tableau
    - Hive
    - Sas
    - R
   </code></pre>
Email: steve@demandcube.com

by: bruceclark
text: Denver, Colorado (remote in CO only)<p>We&#x27;re a small startup in Denver who have built a platform to automate promotional product marketing. We&#x27;re hoping to work with an ambitious and passionate freelancer that&#x27;s got some heavy LAMP stack chops.<p>This opportunity could turn full-time if the individual is interested, however, that is not a requirement.<p>PHP Badass:<p><pre><code>   - Deep understanding of OO PHP
   - Good understanding of linux, apache, and MySQL
   - Experience writing application quality Javascript
   - Wants to work as part of a small and agile team
   - Experience w&#x2F; large web applications a huge plus
   - Experience w&#x2F; ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick a huge plus
</code></pre>
We&#x27;re offering competitive rates depending on the experience level. Learn more at www.printfection.com, or contact us directly at work@printfection.com, subject: PHP Freelancer.

by: songc
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Songspace (<a href="https://songspace.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;songspace.com</a>) Nashville TN or remote<p>Songspace is building a new data management system and songwriting tool to power the next phase of the music industry. One part creative app for songwriters &amp; artists (think Evernote) and one part content management system &#x2F; API for labels and publishers, we utilize the creative process to aggregate assets and data (recordings, lyrics, and copyright ownership details, and music metadata) for music enterprises.<p>We&#x27;re looking for a developer for the following positions:<p>iOS developer<p>For more information visit <a href="https://songspace.com/open-positions-at-songspace" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;songspace.com&#x2F;open-positions-at-songspace</a> or email chris@songspace.com

by: seekingdev_00
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Full-time &#x2F; Part-time Contract position for a  
full-stack Rails developer<p>Responsibilities: Take over and complete a Rails web app that is about eighty percent complete, and then provide ongoing maintenance and support on a very part-time basis after the main project is complete. The code is in good shape with good test coverage.<p>Location: remote - U.S., Canada, Western Europe only<p>We&#x27;re seeking an experienced full-stack Ruby on Rails developer, or very small team to complete a challenging project.<p>Must:
- Have at least 3 years solid Rails experience developing web apps.
- Be able to start within a few weeks.<p>Please include your CV, links to past projects you had a very significant part in developing that are live, and a link to your Linkedin profile if you have one.<p>[railswebappproject] a.t. g-m-a-i-l

by: mryan
text: Remote<p>I am looking for sysadmins and DevOps freelancers to help out on some upcoming projects. I am seeking expertise in:<p>- AWS<p>- Puppet<p>- Vagrant&#x2F;Packer<p>- Python<p>If this matches your skill set and you are looking for some interesting projects to work on, email me on mike@epitech.nl and let me know a bit about yourself.

by: frankdenbow
text: based in NYC but REMOTE ok<p>StartupThreads.com<p>Front end developer for creating an interactive tshirt designer tool. Its a fun project with some interesting &amp; complex challenges for the future. Contact info is in profile

by: chriskelley
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS - Los Angeles, CA or REMOTE<p>We are a production&#x2F;motion house in L.A. expanding into digital. Would love to have people in-house, but we are open to anything.<p>In the near term we are ramping up for a job that needs designers as well as front &amp; back-end devs. Starts ASAP, so please get in touch if you are keen. See specifics below.<p>We&#x27;re also looking to build relationships with more freelance designers, front-end &#x2F; back-end developers, and iOS devs and designers for future projects.<p>-----<p>BACK-END:<p>Primarily we are looking for:<p>+PHP developers<p>We are also open to:<p>+RoR developers<p>+Python web developers<p>-----<p>FRONT-END:<p>+html5<p>+css<p>+javascript<p>+responsive layouts<p>-----<p>DESIGN:<p>+great design fundamentals<p>+eye for UX and user-conscious design<p>+modern style<p>-----<p>The near term project front-end will be a fun and challenging non-app site. Lots of big video and opportunities to play with some contemporary skillsets.<p>EMAIL:<p>chris (at) kingandcountry.tv<p>Thanks!

by: sandGorgon
text: remote or New Delhi, India<p>Skills: Ruby on Rails<p>We are a startup who is looking to build a gamification engine with some real time component to it. We require minimal ajax, no rich interfaces, etc. We do want someone who is an expert in using event-driven systems like sidekiq, etc. to build some parts of this.
You will also need to integrate with most of the social apis as well as mailchimp.
TDD preferred.<p>Apply through <a href="https://hasjob.co/view/xm1ly" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hasjob.co&#x2F;view&#x2F;xm1ly</a><p>my email in profile

by: lukes
text: remote (I am based in the UK but you can be anywhere)<p>Developer required to help me build the front end components of a new and relatively small project. We will use Ember JS with CoffeeScript and jQuery, so familiarity with some client side JS frameworks is essential.<p>Project should require around 30 days over 2 months and can be done part time.<p>I have a strong preference for clean, well structured and well tested code. And a preference for developers who can hit their own estimates.<p>Email in my profile.

by: dealerteam
text: DealerTeam (Remote or Northern California)<p>DealerTeam is seeking a Salesforce &#x2F; APEX developer on contract or a full-time basis. We&#x27;re the leader in automotive CRM and have built an incredibly expansive Salesforce application to service the Sales, Financing, Parts, and Service of any automotive dealership.<p>Website: <a href="https://dealerteam.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dealerteam.com&#x2F;</a> (terrible, I know. We need a new website)<p>Contact: charles@dealerteam.com

by: quantumpotato_
text: US, Remote.<p>I have a fresh Linode VPS &amp; a Themeforest Wordpress theme [0].<p>You have linux skills, can install Wordpress including DB configuration and can install a theme.<p>I hired someone on Microlancer but they insisted that I have FTP or cPanel setup. Shouldn&#x27;t this be doable through the comand line? You&#x27;re more skilled than I, I&#x27;m just an iOS programmer..<p>Willing to pay well for fast and good work.<p>Contact: my hn username minus the _ at gmail

by: amac
text: Remote.<p>PROJECT: Help build an iOS classifieds app.<p>MOTIVATION: Making it easier to sell your stuff. (and to a lesser extent, discover new stuff to buy)<p>SKILLS: iOS development. (objective-c, c++, cocoa etc)
The project is called &#x27;Octopus&#x27; and our temporary website is at octopus.org.<p>My e-mail address and more about me is in my profile. Get in touch with any questions, or ask them here and I&#x27;ll try to get back to you.

by: callmeed
text: SEEKING FREELANCER(S) - remote, US-based<p>I&#x27;ve got both Android and iOS projects that I need immediate assistance with. One of my peers took a full-time job and I&#x27;ve got more than I can handle a the moment. Remote is fine but must be US-based (sorry, this is the client&#x27;s requirement not mine).<p>My email address is in my profile. Please send me:<p>* Your availability<p>* Links to iOS or Android apps you have shipped<p>* Your preferred hourly rate<p>Thanks

by: dhirajbajaj
text: Remote &#x2F; Delhi, India<p>Tech: Android&#x2F;IOS Dev required<p>Looking for a Android&#x2F;IOS dev to work on interesting Side-project. 
Compensation is experience based.<p>Great if you have design skills.<p>Inbox me your details at dhirajbajaj50[at]gmail[dot]com

by: SamGagner
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS - Remote<p>Looking for a developer with experience in the .NET stack (C# or F#) to build SaaS app for a small business.<p>If interested, leave a note here or email me at samgagner@outlook.com.